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[Request for Reconsideration of Claim for Expenses Incurred in Shipping Vehicle]

B-210528 Aug 25, 1983
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A member of the Air Force requested reconsideration of a Claims Group denial of his claim for reimbursement of expenses incurred in shipping his foreign-made, privately owned automobile from overseas to the continental United States. The member had purchased the vehicle overseas prior to beginning active duty. Upon receiving his permanent change-of-station orders, he was told that travel regulations precluded him from being reimbursed for expenses incurred in the shipment of his automobile from overseas to the United States. As a result, the member shipped his automobile at his expense and, since he did not receive permissive temporary duty to pick up and deliver his automobile, he had to use annual leave and pay for related expenses to do so. In his request for reconsideration, the member contended that: (1) the travel regulations were only meant to apply to the shipment of a privately owned vehicle from the continental United States to an overseas site; and (2) since his change-of-station orders to the overseas location authorized him to ship a privately owned vehicle overseas, he should have been authorized to ship his automobile from overseas to the United States. GAO has held that reimbursement of the expense incurred shipping a foreign-made, privately owned vehicle from overseas to the continental United States cannot be allowed where Joint Travel Regulations do not authorize shipment at Government expense in such a situation. Accordingly, the member's claim for the expenses incurred and the leave used were not allowed, and the prior decision was sustained.

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